Some people may have searched the Internet Archive for moving images of people in the Roosevelt staff and found Henry Morgenthau talking about bonds, an impressive speech by Henry Wallace and Harry Hopkins inspecting the work of WPA. You can catch a glimpse of other people as well. This is a collection of such glimpses.

Henry A. Wallace and James Farley appear in this movie from 1963:
http://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep1152
A webside dedicated to Frances Perkins: http://www.ssa.gov/history/fperkins.html

- 1935 Postmaster General James Farley "sells" the first baby bonds to FDR, while Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, is watching.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1935-03-04_FDR_Buys_First_Baby_Bond

- 1935 Social Security Act is announced. Behind FDR is seen Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor and the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States. Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, is standing to the left.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/fdrbig

- 1937? Harry Hopkins, director of the Works Progress Administration, inspects a flood devastated area where WPA workers build levees and rescue people.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/WorkPays1937_2

- 1938 Members of the cabinet arrive at the White House to confer on the European crisis.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1938-09-19_All_Nations_Shaken_By_War_Crisis

- 1938 Harry Hopkins visits New England to inspect the effects of the hurricane.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/ShockTro1938

- 1941 Henry Morgenthau on baby bonds for defense.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1941-04-17_Baby_Bonds_For_Defense

- 1941 Henry Morgenthau on taxes in a Congress committee.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1941-04-29_Aid_Britain_Says_Hull

- 1942 Eleanor Roosevelt introduces the film "Training Women For War Production", produced by the National Youth Administration - in colo(u)r
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/TrainingWome

- 1942 Vice President Henry Wallace, speech on U.S. involvement in the war (intro). He sits in front of the portrait of his father, Henry Wallace. Both served as Secretaries of Agriculture.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/henry_wallace_speech

Best regards
Eva Vikström, Stockholm in September 2007


This movie is part of the collection: Stock Footage

Producer: Various
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; Harry L. Hopkins; Harold L. Ickes; Frances Perkins; Henry A. Wallace

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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